PROHIBITION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42797, 26 October 1905, Page 2

PROHIBITION.

TO THE EDII'OR • K " • Sir, —X have read the circulars issued by both parties in connection with the above. I ha've heard speeches for and against, and now 1 ask the Prohibition party the following questions : 1. The revenue derived from the sale ot a'toholic liquors in New Zealand is £<50,000 annually. In case of prehibition becoming universal in New Zealand, how will this amount of revenue be made up ? 1 do not want such an answer iis“ the people will have more money to spend, etc.” I want a definite scheme to raise £750,000 annuallj . ■ , 2. The prohibition party say they only Wis.i to close the bare. Would it be possible for the hotels in Te Aroha to provide as bountifully as they do now without the help ot tbe 3. Is it not correct that in the three hotels in Te Aroha the dining rooms do not pay ?; ; 4. Is it not a fact that with the travelling public the Te Aroha hotels are most highly thought of and rank among the best houses in the province? , .. •, , 5. Is it not a fact that many tourists look forward with delight to their hohday ml e Aroha, owing to the comforts of the hotels r 6. Wesley Spragg, Speight, Hobbs ( and other shining lights of the prohibition party, stay at the hotels when on a visit to Te Aroha, in preference to those of the boarding-houses. Is not this owing to the fact that the table and comforts of the hotels are superior to those of the boarding houses ? 7. Is it not a fact that the hotels are able to give this superior accommodation by the sale of alcoholic liquors ? ' 8. Does it not seem inconsistent that people who arc always cursing the liquor trade should stay at hotels where liquor is sold in preference to the boarding-houses, and so participate in. the comforts derived from the sale of t.iafc which they are always cursing? 9. Is it not a fact that many of the prohibitionists, even in Te Aroha, keep whiskey in. their homes, and by all accounts get through a fair quantity ? 10. Is it not a fact that Prohibition is essentially a Wesleyan movement anl an attempt to restore the Tyrannical Puritan times of Cromwell ? 11. The Te Aroha Hotels pay £l2O a year to the Borough. How would this loss be made good P When these questions are answered I have some more to ask. —Yours, etc., Inqoteeb. i

TO THE EDITOR. ' Sir, —I went the other evening to hear Mr Dixon Ward, aud never haying been a teatotaler can claim to be unbiased. How has he the conceit to think ho can bluff people with a high band and loud talk. Sir, it reminded. me of a lawyar employed to' defend a bad case, and who was all the time convinced he had a bad case, but being well paid must make a fair show of earning his money, but all the time was carrying conviction to the juries’ mind that he knew it was a bad case; and did lie not know it he would not have refused to meet Mrs Harrison Lee. When a man says he wifi not debate with a lady be sure Hie knows he is afraid of her and the disgrace of defeat. The verdict of thinking people I have spoken with is that he did the temperance cause more good than harm. The leaflet circulated with the Herald is such a tissue of misrepresentations that it can scarcely deceive any sane person. Thanking you for the insertion of these few lines, I am, etc,, Observed.